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Angela stands bundled up on a cold winter day above Gavins Point Dam.

A German contractor rappels down the nose of Abraham Lincoln to begin pressure washing the granite faces of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Hundreds of thousands of geese swarm over a sunset on a country road north of Freeman, South Dakota.

The sun sets over a railroad bridge spanning the Missouri River in Chamberlain, South Dakota.

Overlooking the Pacific Ocean from the Self-realization Fellowship Gardens near Encinitas, California.

A view of the Missouri River in Springfield, South Dakota.

A cowboy returns from rounding up bison in Custer State Park in South Dakota’s Black Hills.

A child plays in a large fountain outside the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany.

A Dutch drainage mill helps keep the fields dry near Leiden in the Netherlands.

Workers pick colorful flowers from The Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California.

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform a maneuver during an airshow in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

An abandoned one-room schoolhouse in South Dakota’s McPherson County.

A near full moon on a crisp, clear fall night.

Las Vegas 51s pitcher Logan Verrett delivers a pitch as the sun sets during a AAA game between the 51s and the Omaha Stormchasers in Nebraska.

Tourists at The Louvre in Paris engage in a staring contest with Alexandros of Antioch’s Venus de Milo statue.

The sun silhouettes some lanky palm trees over a Punta Cana beach in the Dominican Republic.

A watchful Dobermann Pinscher protects his master while he takes a nap in a park in The Hauge, Netherlands.

Journalist Katie Couric chats during a ceremony in which she was awarded the 2009 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media.

A poker hand of Aces and Eights, a spent shell and some change sits at the foot of the grave site of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota.

A humorous road sign pokes fun at the tiny population of the town of Wecota, South Dakota.

The Dignity statue created by sculptor Dale Lamphere sits atop a Missouri River bluff in Chamberlain, South Dakota.

A bench sitting atop Mount Sabbatus offers a breathtaking view of western Maine near Lovell.

Colorful flowers form a flag in The Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California

Large coral trees reach toward the Cirrocumulus clouds along a path into Seaport Village in San Diego, California.

A Snowy Owl sits atop a power line on a winter day.

A Bald Eagle soars through the sky over the Missouri River at Gavins Point Dam.

A pair of Monarch butterflies suck nectar from Some garlic chive plant blooms.

A highway plow helps free a convoy of stuck tractor-trailers along a snow-covered interstate.

A cowboy corrals some bison at Custer State Park’s annual Buffalo Roundup.

Belgian football fans rally for their team in Grand Place in the city of Brussels.

The Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

A Malayan sun bear chills as he awaits the passing of some clouds at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo.

The sun rises at a wind farm near Toronto, South Dakota.

The Multnomah Falls waterfall in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge pours down 611 feet past a walking bridge of tourists.

Bicyclists enjoy a framed view of San Francisco’s Marina-Cow Hollow neighborhoods from atop a steep hill at Fort Mason.

The Hogback Covered Bridge, one of six remaining covered bridges in Madison County, Iowa, sits peacefully on a summer day near the town of Winterset.

Ice and snow cover riverside trees over a wooden bridge.

The setting sun signifies the end of a pheasant hunt.

The granite heads of Mount Rushmore are framed by a tunnel on Iron Mountain Road.

Cyclists brave bitter cold temperatures for an annual New Year’s Day Bike Ride.